MONSTRATOR is a stage work on monsters, freakshows, human zoos, colonial exhibitions and other wonders and aberrations such as human beings.

MONSTRATOR is a performance rooted in the exploration of monstrousness that aims to critically question the theatrical apparatus of freakshows and Human Zoos. While in the freakshows, the other, or the one who stands outside the norm, became a monster, in Human zoos other cultures were to be exoticized or monstrified. Those theatrical demonstrations served as regulating mechanisms in which segregation, binary ways of thinking and processes of othering were emphasized in order to confirm the normality of the spectators.This work aims at investigating and exploring ways of transforming and blurring the conventional roles of the monster, the show host and the audience in order to rethink the mechanisms in which alterity operates.

Monstrator makes use of the aesthetics of the grotesque, in which everything is presented in an excessive, exaggerated, hybrid manner and oscillates between the visible and invisible. The show evolves from an absurd constellation that fuses the boundaries between the comic and the horror. In a universe inhabited by strangeness and uncanniness a question arises: Who/ what is the Monster?

Following the performance on August 3rd, 2017: Salon "Hosting Monsters and Audiences." Supported by mapping dance from Tanzbüro Berlin.